A heavyweight for the political Tea Party movement in the south has most likely just crippled his potential political future. 61-year-old Anthony Trinca was arrested for allegedly selling pirated versions of high-end computer software. Microsoft Office, Windows, Adobe Photoshop, and Rosetta Stone language programs were all listed as software that he sold illegally. Trinca is the president of the Grand Strand Tea Party, based in South Carolina, which strives to spread messages about how big government is evil and that America needs to return to its conservative roots. His software piracy scheme came to an end after one of his customers purchased four copies of Rosetta Stone software, and then tried to resell the software himself.

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Last night the Chicago Sun-Times broke the story that Tea Party freshman Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL), who has spent months lecturing President Obama and Democrats on fiscal responsibility, owes $117,437 in child support to his ex-wife and three children. Laura Walsh has asked a judge to suspend his driver’s license until he pays his child support. Despite loaning his own campaign $35,000 — and paying himself back at least $14,200 for the loans — Walsh claims he failed to make the payments because he “had no money.”

The tax-bashing congressman campaigned on a pledge to reject the Washington “status quo” and has bragged about his own frugality, claiming he even sleeps in his congressional office to save money. Walsh, who’s been described as “the biggest media hound in the freshman class,” has been a prominent voice in the debt ceiling showdown in recent weeks, making television appearances almost every day to denounce President Obama’s “reckless spending,” which he says has “bankrupted this country.”

“I won’t place one more dollar of debt upon the backs of my kids and grandkids unless we structurally reform the way this town spends money!” Walsh says in one video. But today, when confronted in a CNN interview about his failure to support his own children, Walsh not only refused to acknowledge his hypocrisy but insisted that being a deadbeat dad meant he understood the plight of average Americans:

I know that story just broke, and it’s interesting that it just broke right now as I’m out there trying my best to fight this President and fight the Democrats and solve this debt crisis. But look, I’m the most openly vetted candidate in the world. I have had financial troubles and I talked about them throughout the campaign. This is where real America is.

Watch it AT THE LINK!

This is not the first time Walsh has faced scrutiny for the disconnect between his rhetoric and the way he conducts his personal life. In 2009, Walsh lost a condo to foreclosure because he owed more than $300,000 on the property. In April 2010, an investigation revealed that Walsh failed to file his personal financial disclosure form as required by federal election law. When questions about his personal finances dogged his congressional campaign, Walsh once again claimed he wasn’t a rich man, despite managing to pay $3,300 per month for a house in upscale Winnetka.

Walsh also rejected the congressional health insurance plan for his family on principle, much to the chagrin of his current wife, Helene, who had a preexisting condition and needed surgery while the couple was uninsured. (Walsh’s Wikipedia page excludes his first marriage.) But Walsh apparently thinks he can have it both ways — claiming his own indebtedness and failure to care for his family’s needs allows him to understand average Americans, while railing against Washington for irresponsibly racking up deficits. As he put it in a recent interview, “Thank God congressmen like me are here!”

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"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime."Honore de Balzac

"Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it."~Harry S. Truman

First we found out about Big Bad Bobby Mecklenborg driving around full of alcohol and Viagra with a stripper in the car with him. Now we've got this:

State Rep. Jarrod Martin, who is facing drunken driving and child endangerment charges for a July 22 traffic stop, was kicked out of a Beavercreek hotel in 2010 for being drunk and fighting and a few months earlier was found passed out in a downtown Columbus parking garage, according to police records. The Ohio Highway Patrol found Martin, R-Beavercreek, at 1:05 a.m. on March 24, 2010 slumped over a Chevy Suburban that belonged to state Rep. William Batchelder, R-Medina, who left his car in the garage overnight. Batchelder is now the Speaker of the House. Medics were called after a state trooper tried unsuccessfully for 20 minutes to wake Martin, according to the patrol’s log. At 3:22 a.m., long-time lawmaker Rep. Ron Amstutz, R-Wooster, called the patrol and arranged for House Republican campaign director Mike Dittoe to pick up Martin. It is unclear why Amstutz was called. Amstutz did not return messages on Friday.

Walsh is SUCH a dirtbag! Did you hear that Lawrence O'Donnell banned this huge piece of garbage from his MSNBC show? True fact.

Yep...TRUE! Good for Lawrence! He, Rachel, Keith Olbermann (now at CURRENT and competing with Lawrence for ratings...I tend to switch back and forth between them each weekday night!), Ed Shultz...they're the good guys of the media. Let's hope, hope, hope that the Wisconsin voters will get out and make history in their state next week, sending their RETHUGS back under the rock from which they crawled...and my apologies to all crawling things, other than other RETHUGS!

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"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime."Honore de Balzac

"Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it."~Harry S. Truman

Dr. Hunter s. Thompson was generally much, much lighter than that; in fact, he was often so hilarious that he made me laugh too hard to inhale. (Read his Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas for any number of examples...and I don't hean just that polite "lol" that people put into their comments; I'm talking about deep and lusty belly-laughs!) Hunter had a wild, brilliant writing style as well as mad skills that went hand-in-hand with his deep feelings of outrage and unfairness; he was on the White House lawn when Richard Nixon got into the helicopter and left town after Watergate, for example.

It was my pleasure and privilege to introduce you to a man whom I personally loved dearly and who I miss all the time even yet. He left us much too soon. Look him up in wikipedia if you are so inclined and see what a truly amazing man he really was.

And you could do worse than reading some of his work, too...

I have been trying to reply to this forever it seems. Try, try again.

I have looked into getting Hunter S Thompson materials. The library is supposed to find anything we ask for but they take forever to do so. Rightwing books are wall to wall in there. I will look further on the internet for reading.

This is the third time I have tried to send this to you. For some reason the computer poops out right after I write. Maybe this time...

[ Let's hope, hope, hope that the Wisconsin voters will get out and make history in their state next week...

The word I get is that the voters are gonna kick GOP butts and take names up in Wisconsin next week. The maggot Koch brothers are dipping deep into the witchbag of dirty tricks bag trying to stop them, too.

I'm keeping an eye on it, but I'm not too worried; you remember all those people they had demonstrating in the streets and in the State House! People are upset.

Hrere you go, Catherine, just in case you thought the good people of Wisconsin are going to let Scott Walker's union busting happen unopposed, (they call him Scott "Wanker" up there, by the way) here's a little something to brighten your day:

The chairwoman of the Republican Party of Columbia County resigned Friday after a drunken crash with her three children in her car. Amber Hahn, 35, of rural Poynette, said she crashed her car Thursday night while driving drunk, but that no one was hurt and that no other vehicles were involved. The Columbia County Sheriff's Office arrived at the scene from the OnStar alert in her car, she said. Columbia County District Attorney Jane Kohlwey said the incident took place about 9 p.m. on Old B and Raddatz roads in the town of Springvale. Kohlwey, a Republican, said she asked a special prosecutor from Dane County to handle the case.

An Indiana state Representative, who recently voted for a constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage, has been accused of using Craigslist to offer an 18-year old male $80 for "a couple hours of your time tonight" plus a tip "for a really good time."

The Indianapolis Star obtained e-mails sent from Rep. Phillip Hinkle's (R-Closet Dweller) publicly listed personal address, responding to a Craigslist posting by Kameryn Gibson that said "I need a sugga daddy." Gibson told the Star that the post was in the "Casual Encounters" section under m4m, or men for men. He used his sister Megan's e-mail address -- and she later sent the e-mails to the Star.

"Cannot be a long time sugar daddy," says the e-mail response from what is allegedly Hinkle's address, "but can for tonight. Would you be interested in keeping me company for a while tonight? I am an in shape married professional, 5'8", fit 170 lbs, and love getting and staying naked," the e-mail says.